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...freed slaves seeking a guarantee of equal rights. However, Richardson tells us, the growing middle class view was against the expansion of a government that favored any special interest group outside of themselves. If one was industrious, they would not need any special treatment from the government. Much of Richardson??s focus is on the disappearing Western frontier, which provided the ideal of the hardworking individual free from eastern corruption and big government that Middle America lauded. But, Richardson reminds us, everyone had their place. Women receiving a greater public voice was only okay when they were doing...
...source of the term “stream of consciousness” as applied to mental processes, James had little patience for formal innovations in art and literature, even scorning much of his brother Henry’s work as overly experimental. Despite these flaws, Richardson??s book will occupy a comfortable place at the center of contemporary James biographies for years to come. Richardson is especially good at tracing particular James theories from their first gestations to their eventual appearance in published form. As Richardson puts it, while it may seem that James’ later philosophical...
...their lives and, because of this, find comfort in one another. Romantic movie weaklings, who cry over “The Notebook,” may need to find comfort in their Kleenex. Lynn Redgrave, real-life mother to Richardson, fittingly plays Sofia’s mother, while Richardson??s aunt Vanessa plays the mother of Sofia’s dead husband. The two hypocritical society women frown upon Sofia’s prostitution, yet complain little when she brings home the money. This Redgrave Reunion is an acting feast, and I’m not going...
After graduating from Harvard, Richardson again eschewed the South for the École des Beaux Arts in Paris to study architecture. Richardson??s checks from home quickly dried up after the Civil War broke out, but instead of returning home, he headed to New York and then Massachusetts, where he spent most of his adult life...
According to Heymann, Richardson??s appointment of Cox “led the Democrats who hated Nixon and feared Nixon to be very much afraid that [the man] Richardson had appointed was too unprepared for the rough and tumble of Nixon’s Washington” and that he would not be capable of “satisfactorily investigating all of the issues that came...